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Over the past several years, the African Union Commission (AUC) has explored the possibility of setting up a food safety body to help address many of the systemic food safety challenges across Africa.

A tender for 800 head of EU breeding bulls (400 head of Simmental, 200 head of Charolais, 200 head of Limousin) will be held on March 24, 2015.

A communique on the requirements for receiving the control document for the importation of bovine and ovine/caprine animals was published on January 29, 2015.

On January 29, 2015, the government of Angola revoked import licenses for 25 agricultural products including poultry, effectively blocking imports of these products for an unspecified duration.

This report outlines specific requirements for food and agricultural products imports into Turkey.

On January 27, 2015, the government of Nigeria (GON) in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, inaugurated: 1) Inter-Ministerial Committee on Food Safety and 2) National Food Safety Management Committee.

United States exporters of agricultural products to South Africa, especially meat exporters, face both tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade.

Turkey published a new Retail Law in January 2015 which affects space allocations in shopping malls, an information system, and shelf fees.

An implementing procedure for the importation of feeder cattle was published on February 05, 2015.

Wheat production is increased 250,000 metric tons (MT) on stronger than expected durum yields in southeast Anatolia.

Post kept its estimate for the area planted with corn in the 2014/15 MY unchanged at 3.1 million hectares (including subsistence farming).